Taylor West

Strategic Consulting, Philanthropic Advisory Services, and Project Leadership in Denver, Colorado

Taylor West

Strategic Consulting, Philanthropic Advisory Services, and Project Leadership in Denver, Colorado

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As founding principal of Heart + Mind Partners, Taylor West offers project development and oversight, philanthropic advisory services, strategic communications guidance, an insider's understanding of political ecosystems, and a unique set of relationships and experience within the psychedelic field. She leverages her expertise to help clients build projects that are designed to succeed in the politically and culturally complex world of drug policy reform.

Taylor is a veteran policy advocate and strategic communications executive with more than two decades of experience leading and advising on projects at the intersection of politics and the private sector. Over the last ten years, she has been centrally involved in the emergent fields of both psychedelics and cannabis policy reform.

  • Chief of Staff, New Approach(2020-2022), the primary funder and strategic partner for the successful Oregon psilocybin therapy ballot initiative in 2020, the successful Colorado psychedelic therapy ballot initiative in 2022, and nearly every successful state cannabis reform ballot initiative since 2012
  • Director of Communications,Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative(2020-2022), the leading community of philanthropists dedicated to supporting psychedelic medicine and science
  • Senior Communications Director,COHN Marketing (2017-2019), providing strategy and business development for COHN’s cannabis brand, marketing, and public relations vertical
  • Deputy Director,National Cannabis Industry Association(2013-2017), the first and largest national trade association for the businesses of the legal cannabis industry

"The PR Mastermind Who Coined the Term 'Swipe Fees'" (American Banker)

VIDEO: Discussing marijuana policy and the Trump administration on MSNBC